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Originally Posted by DanielKoehler
Other than that, it is all a matter of style and taste. Faulkner won a Nobel prize and his sentences go on for pages. Is that "good" writing? Beats me. Hemingway wrote in short sentences and he won the Nobel, too. Literary purists make me sick! As if anyone could be deemed to have the last word on matters of style and taste. The market is the arbiter. I imagine that, back in the day of Jules Verne, who used the passive voice ad nauseum, if anyone would write in first person, active voice, that writer would be denounced as a "bad" writer.
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Thank goodness for the magical hand of the market. Humans need have no brains or judgment; the market will do everything for them. That's why the U.S. economy is doing so well.
Judging from your post, you've read nothing that came before it and will read nothing that comes afterward, so there's no point in me repeating what's already been said. Sorry you're feeling sick; hope you get better soon.